National Republican., 1887-04-23
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

tenderness in our heart, and beautiful
thoughts haunt us.
The main poem Of Elsie has many sweet
fnd simple touches OF nature, truly portray
ing girl life, some so gay, SO gleeful, 80
that they cause us to linger
awhile, remembering, with smiles, and
almost with tears. Others are of the deep
Est pathos. A good mother tells the 8 ory
of her lovely and loving daughter. We
choose few stanzas.
Our Elses education done,
She came back to us full Of fun,
And sent her rppled daughters light,
Around the house from morn to night.
No robin on the topmost limb,
NO sparrow flirting through the air,
No restless rcdwing, pert aud trim,
No wild bee darting here and there
None equaled-none. In field or tree,
Her careless How of gayety.
The marriage time approaches. Remem-
ber, the mother speaks:
Her voice grew strangely low and kind:
The gracious soul within her eyes
Took on Il tenderer blue than June
Our soft rebukcs she did not mind,
But, looking up In sweet surprise,
Kept humming still her quiet tune,
| cOnld not meet her on the stair
Without her solt arm stealing round
My waist and Oft, / know, irowned,
And murmured, what a child you are
But she would pull my forehead down
Among her tresses golden brown,
Aud whisper, conf1entially,
"I must kiss somebody or III DIE,
Then laugh, aud from me lightly hy.
If this be not pure nature, then we, who
are generally acknowledged to know very
thing by virtue Of our Office as literary edi-
tor. resign claim to all things.
What ending had such hsppinesst
"Cupid In Net" an ingeuiously coml.
cal poem, follows, and from that, as from
each piece IN the book, II were pleasure to
quote passages or now aud then some un-
usually happy line. But we must refrain,
adding only general and cordial recon-
mendation Of our poet to all who wear
hearts, who hear brains, who love music.
The volume, mechanically aud artistically,
is finely produced, and the illustrations not
only abound In picturesqueness, but more
10 poetry. Especially applicable is this re-
mark to the frontispece, where peusive,
beautiful maiden, resting under trees aud
among flowers, by the river side, represents
"Soug."
We are pleased to learn that the author
OF this excellent work has written, and Will
soon publish, "The Chasm Flower" heart
idyl, the scene being on the Mississippi
river, opposite Dubuque.
PRACTICAL CHEIROSOPHY. A synoptica
study OF the science of the hand. BI Eli.
WARD HERON ALLEN, author of "a Manua
of Cheirosophy." &c. With cxplanator!
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That there Is Il science OF the hand thi'
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walton In nature confirms. No two pair
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his or her characteristic Of mind accordip,
to those signs. With u little study tn
lines OF life may be read like the printe,
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by the pages before us, we recommen
them to general, thoughtful consideration
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PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN Historical
ASSOCIATION. Vol III, No. J. Report
the Proceedings, Third Annual Meetin
Washington, d. c., April 27-29, 1886. /
, HERBERT b. ADAMS. Secretary of the ASS
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Contributions by many learned and trus
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